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Name:
Bosnian
Type:
Language
Alternate Name:
Serbian-Croatian
Spoken in:
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Albania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Number of speakers:
2,000,000 in Bosnia and Herzegovina (2004). Population total all countries: 2,203,800
(Ethnologue)
Number of speakers:
1535000
(UNESCO)
Number of speakers:
4000000
(World Oral Literature Project)
Code:
bos
Code Standard:
ISO 639-3
Documentation:
SIL
Families:
Indo-European (Indo-Germanische, Indo-Hittite)
Parent Dialects:
Zeta-South Sandžak; Zeta-South Sanjak; Old Ijekavian (srp-zet)
Eastern Bosnian; Jekavian Šćakavian (bos-eas)
Bosnian-Dalmatian; Dalmation-Bosnian; Western Ikavian; Younger Ikavian (bos-dal)
Eastern Herzegovinian; Eastern-Herzegovininan-Krajina; Younger Ijekavian (hrv-eas)
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Endangerment Status
UNESCO Status: Vulnerable Ethnologue Status: Not listed Sutherland's Red List: Not listed
Map of Bosnian
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